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Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.

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ACUPUNCTURE AND POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

A double-blind randomised controlled study of acupuncture versus a placebo was carried out on 81 patients scheduled for day case gynaecological laparoscopic surgery. The acupuncture patients who received treatment at Neiguan P-6 showed a 65% reduction in postoperative nausea and vomiting in hospital compared to 35% in the placebo group and a 69% compared to 31% reduction after discharg ...

ACUPUNCTURE & STRABISMUS SURGERY

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

The effect of stimulating Tianzhu BL-10, Dazhu BL-11 and Yanglingquan GB-34 by needeless acuplasters to control vomiting in children (age 3 to 14) after strabismus surgery was evaluated by comparing them with a group who received placebo treatment. The overall postoperative vomiting incidence in the acuplaster patients in a 24 hour period was 29.4% as opposed 64.5% in the placebo group (Acta Anaes ...

ACUPUNCTURE AND SICKNESS

Categories: Nausea & vomiting, Pregnancy & labour

regnant women who experience exceptionally severe morning sickness may benefit from acupuncture in addition to standard treatment, researchers in Sweden report. In a study of 33 pregnant women, only 7 of 17 women were still vomiting 3 days after acupuncture compared with 12 of 16 women who received a sham acupuncture treatment, according to findings published in the October issue of the Journal of ...

ACUPRESSURE & MORNING SICKNESS

Categories: Nausea & vomiting, Pregnancy & labour

In a study to assess the benefits of acupressure at Neiguan P-6 in the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, researches at Lund University in Sweden asked 60 pregnant women suffering from symptoms to a) wear a wrist band at Neiguan P-6, b) wear a wristband at a placebo point, and c) wear no wrist band. Both the Neiguan P-6 and the placebo groups showed a reduction in nausea and vomiting, ...

ELECTROACUPUNCTURE AND NAUSEA/VOMITING

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

In a study carried out at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, a sham-controlled, double-blinded study was designed to examine the antiemetic efficacy of transcutaneous acupoint electrical stimulation (TAES) in a surgical population (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) at high risk of developing nausea and vomiting. 221 outpatients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with a standardi ...

ACUPUNCTURE & VOMITING

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

Patients given cyclophosphamide infusion for rheumatic diseases, suffer from nausea and vomiting as a side-effect. To assess the potential benefits of acupuncture in reducing these symptoms, a Swedish study compared the use of ondansetron (an anti-emetic) alone, or ondansetron in combination with needling of Neiguan P-6 and/or ear points. Compared with ondansetron treatment alone, the combined acu ...

ACUPUNCTURE & MORNING SICKNESS

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

A study of 593 women at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, who were less than 14 weeks pregnant and suffered from symptoms of nausea or vomiting, compared traditional acupuncture, simple acupuncture at Neiguan P-6 only, sham acupuncture and no acupuncture. The acupuncture patients received two 20-minute sessions of acupuncture in the first week followed by one weekly treatme ...

ACUPUNCTURE & NAUSEA

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

A systematic review of 26 acupuncture trials into the use of Neiguan P-6 for post-operative nausea has found that it is as successful as routine anti-sickness medication and is both cheaper and has fewer side effects. (http://www.cochrane.org//cochrane/revabstr/ab003281.htm).

ACUPUNCTURE/ACUPRESSURE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY VOMITING

Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting

A systematic review published by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organisation that evaluates medical research, pooled results from nine studies into the use of acupuncture for post-chemotherapy vomiting. Overall, 22% of patients who received acupuncture suffered vomiting the first day after chemotherapy, compared to 33% of those who did not receive acupuncture. When acupressure studie ...

CHINESE HERBS FOR CHEMOTHERAPY TOXICITY

Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (TCHM) does not reduce the toxic effects of chemotherapy on patient's blood cell populations, however it does have a significant impact on control of nausea. One hundred and twenty patients with early-stage breast or colon cancer who required postoperative chemotherapy were enrolled. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either individualised TCHM presc ...

ACUPRESSURE FOR CHEMOTHERAPY SICKNESS

Categories: Cancer, Nausea & vomiting

Self-applied acupressure for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting has been found to compare favourably with placebo. A multicentre, longitudinal, randomised clinical trial enrolled 160 women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. Subjects were randomised to one of three groups: acupressure at Neiguan P-6 point (active), acupressure to Houxi SI-3 point (placebo), or usual care only. Subject ...

AURICULAR ACUPUNCTURE FOR NAUSEA AND VOMITING AFTER GALL BLADDER SURGERY

Categories: Nausea & vomiting

The efficacy of auricular acupuncture for the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting after cholecystectomy has been investigated by Iranian researchers. One hundred female patients undergoing transabdominal cholecystectomy were randomly allocated to an auricular acupuncture treatment group or a non-treatment group. A significant difference was found between the control and auricular acupu ...

ACUPUNCTURE FOR CHEMO INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING IN CHILDREN

Categories: Babies & children / paediatrics, Cancer, Nausea & vomiting

Researchers have investigated whether acupuncture can reduce the need for antiemetic medication during chemotherapy in paediatric oncology. A multicentre crossover study carried out at five hospitals in Germany enrolled 23 children, mean age 13.6 years, who were receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy for the treatment of solid malignant tumours. Patients were randomly allocated to receive acupun ...

Chinese herbs and hepatitis e

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders

Hepatitis E is endemic in developing countries and may occur as imported hepatitis in industrialised countries. A 46-year-old Japanese man developed immunoserologically diagnosed acute hepatitis E in Japan 4 months after he had made a trip to China. He had bought a Chinese herbal medicine there, taking it occasionally until approximately 6 weeks prior to the onset of acute hepatitis. The results o ...

Acupuncture & eye blood flow

Categories: Eye disorders

Further details of a study we covered in NEWS May 1998, show a greater benefit from acupuncture among those who have previously received acupuncture than among those receiving treatment for the first time. The research carried out at the Department of Ophthalmology at Kyoto Prefectural University, involved needling Hegu L.I.-4 and measuring chorioretinal blood flow using the Heidelberg ...

Acupuncture and jet lag

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders

In a study carried out by the US airforce, electrical stimulation of auricular acupuncture points using a Pointer Plus device was effective in treating jet lag. 5 USAF aircrew members suffering from circadian desynchronosis (jet lag) were treated at points Shenmen, Zero, Sleep Disorder I and 2, and Pineal Gland at a frequency of 10 Hz, a pulse width of 220 microseconds, and a pulse shape of an asy ...

Acupuncture for spinal cord injuries

Categories: Spinal cord

A recent clinical trial of acupuncture therapy for spinal cord injury has shown promising results. 100 patients with acute spinal cord injury were randomly divided into two groups. The control group was treated with standard rehabilitation therapy, whilst the treatment group received electro-acupuncture treatment in addition to rehabilitation. For both groups, neurological and functional scores we ...

Acupuncture for uveitis

Categories: Eye disorders

Uveitis, an inflammation of the uvea, the middle layer of the eye, causes pain, blurred vision and, left untreated, may lead to blindness. Researchers at the University of Vienna ophthalmology and uveitis departments treated five patients with recurrent uveitis by acupuncture. All patients reported a decrease of pain and increased visual acuity, laser measurement showed decreased inflammation an ...

Acupuncture & spinal cord injury

Categories: Spinal cord

In a Taiwanese trial, 100 acute traumatic spinal cord injury patients were randomly assigned to acupuncture plus rehabilitation therapy, or control (rehabilitation only) groups. The acupuncture group received stimulation to Houxi SI-3 and Shenmai BL-62 bilaterally via adhesive surface electrodes, without needles. Treatment was given as early as possible- in the emergency room or soon after spinal ...

Acupuncture for voice disorders

Categories: Miscellaneous disorders

Point specific acupuncture is effective in treating vocal disorders arising from benign pathological tissue changes according to a recent study. Twenty four subjects with dysphonia were randomly assigned to either an experimental group or a placebo group. The experimental group received acupuncture on Renying ST-9, Lieque LU-7 and Zhaohai KID-6, which are all related to improving throat problems a ...